#1709380 - 01/05/10 08:07 PM
Did we kill all the young bucks ?
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RAFI
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With the liberal limit this year?Seems like people all over Tn were hating twra when they changed the limits and muzzleloader season this year.the buck kill is about the same as last year.
I thought the buck kill would go up this year a little.So what do you all have to say?I think it worked great.It gave more hunters more chances to kill deer but the overall harvest was not changed much.
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#1709611 - 01/05/10 09:50 PM
Re: Did we kill all the young bucks ?
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gator-n-buck
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I think too many people worry about stuff that doesn't make a differents... They forget that just because you buy a hunting license doesn't mean you are going to kill three bucks.. I'm willing to bet that there are some people that bought a license that didn't even hunt this deer season... TWRA might Know a little more than some of these guys will give them credit... The funny thing is that some of these guys will hunt a few hundred or a few thousand acres and want to tell TWRA how to manage the whole state...  I really feel that TWRA does there homework and takes a lot of things into factor when making regs....
Edited by gator-n-buck (01/05/10 09:50 PM)
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#1709654 - 01/05/10 10:03 PM
Re: Did we kill all the young bucks ?
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RAFI
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I agree with that.totally with the part of the guys who hunt a few hundred or so acres and want twra to run the whole state to meet thier management goals.They seem to be the most vocal part of the state.They don't seem to understand that twra has to try to take care of all the hunters in Tn not just a few who want to make thier neighbors practice thier knid of qdm
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#1709658 - 01/05/10 10:05 PM
Re: Did we kill all the young bucks ?
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LIL JOKER
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#1709696 - 01/05/10 10:29 PM
Re: Did we kill all the young bucks ?
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Setterman
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I think it is too early to tell whether the increased limits will have any impacts. It certainly doesn't appear to have any negative impact as of this season, which is slightly surprising, but I think TN hunters as a whole are changing. It could also be a result of less total 1.5 year old bucks in the herd, due to the EHD outbreak 2 years ago, which would lessen the available numbers of animals to be harvested. Only time will tell, but for now it looks to be a non-factor.
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#1709710 - 01/05/10 10:38 PM
Re: Did we kill all the young bucks ?
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gator-n-buck
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I think it is too early to tell whether the increased limits will have any impacts. It certainly doesn't appear to have any negative impact as of this season, which is slightly surprising, but I think TN hunters as a whole are changing. It could also be a result of less total 1.5 year old bucks in the herd, due to the EHD outbreak 2 years ago, which would lessen the available numbers of animals to be harvested. Only time will tell, but for now it looks to be a non-factor.
Maybe Tn hunters are buying license in other states and chasing horns and it has helped TN... That brings up another point... If these other states are selling a lot more out of state license and they have a one buck limit... Is it really a one buck limit when they have more hunter coming in killing more bucks?
Edited by gator-n-buck (01/05/10 10:39 PM)
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#1709714 - 01/05/10 10:39 PM
Re: Did we kill all the young bucks ?
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Most of the hunters that I have talked to, could have killed 3
bucks, but they didn't. I wonder why? Could there be some kind
of self imposed limit going on......on baby bucks?
Bigger bucks being killed every year now. I wonder why?
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#1709730 - 01/05/10 10:51 PM
Re: Did we kill all the young bucks ?
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Maybe Tn hunters are buying license in other states and chasing horns and it has helped TN... That brings up another point... If these other states are selling a lot more out of state license and they have a one buck limit... Is it really a one buck limit when they have more hunter coming in killing more bucks?
It is when they limit the number of buck tags sold.
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#1709735 - 01/05/10 10:55 PM
Re: Did we kill all the young bucks ?
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gator-n-buck
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Most of the hunters that I have talked to, could have killed 3
bucks, but they didn't. I wonder why? Could there be some kind
of self imposed limit going on......on baby bucks?
Bigger bucks being killed every year now. I wonder why?
I agree... I think hunters only have so much freezer room and we all want to kill nice bucks... We get one or two nice ones, we will hold out for something bigger... The other thing that plays in is that we have a lot more chances to kill does to help fill the freezer...
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#1709743 - 01/05/10 11:00 PM
Re: Did we kill all the young bucks ?
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gator-n-buck
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Maybe Tn hunters are buying license in other states and chasing horns and it has helped TN... That brings up another point... If these other states are selling a lot more out of state license and they have a one buck limit... Is it really a one buck limit when they have more hunter coming in killing more bucks? It is when they limit the number of buck tags sold.
I think it comes down to bigger horns and we can't change that... If we closed hunting down for 3 seasons, we still couldn't compete with these one buck limit states that everybody wants to compare TN too.
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